FracFocus disclosures published between August 7, 2025 and September 7, 2025
Background
- This report of new chemical disclosures summarizes the fracking jobs published recently at FracFocus, the industry-sponsored chemical disclosure instrument. It includes the Who, What and Where of recent fracking activity: the operating companies, the chemicals they use (including quantities), and where these jobs are located.
- Open-FF produced this report. Open-FF is an open source, independent project to make the FracFocus data more usable. The FracTracker Alliance sponsors this work.
- The nature of the fracking chemical data is complicated and can be difficult to make sense of. Open-FF aims to make it those data more digestible. In addition, FracFocus disclosures are plagued by inconsistencies, ambiguous and missing values and many obvious data errors. Open-FF flags and filters many of those problems. Our hope is that these regular reports (and the broader Open-FF project) will give readers both big-picture perspectives of industry activities as well as enough detail to dig deeply into specifics such as individual chemicals, fracking job, or company.
- If you have specific interests in the FracFocus data but are having trouble with it, please contact us.
A few highlights
1,305 new fracking disclosures were added. Almost 3/4 of disclosures were from Texas and SE New Mexico.
(Map data © OpenStreetMap)
About 300 of these disclosures were from Devon Energy in New Mexico. About 200 of those were for jobs completed between 2022 and a year ago.
Many of these Devon Energy disclosures make up an unusually high count of “no trade secret” disclosures. Often, they report only a few products.
Three Devon Energy disclosures in New Mexico each report of 17 million pounds of hydrochloric acid. More than 20 Devon disclosures each report more than 500,000 pounds of HCl.
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Almost 130 disclosures report using over 30,000,000 gallons of water. Two Texas wells report over 200,000,000 gallons. The satellite image is of a Louisiana well: 54,000,000 gallons.
(Satellite image ©Google Maps)
Prairie Operating Company reported 3 million pounds of the biocide, glutaraldehyde, in Weld County, Colorado.
